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Essays and Articles
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Murder at the Rummage Sale can be categorized as a cozy mystery. How does it fit that genre? In what ways does it differ from a…
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“Atherstone!” The railway official I had managed to pigeonhole in busy London Euston Station seemed affronted. “Why do you want to go to Atherstone? There’s…
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Maeve has been impatiently waiting for interview requests from The New York Times and other major media since The Times published that article about…
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My name is Maeve. It rhymes with brave, cave, wave. (I am not going to go through all the rhyming possibilities; some are not…
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“You cannot make God a fairytale!” declared the woman in the second row, her face blotchy with outrage. “The Blessed Mother and Mary Magdalen…
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In March, 2004 I made a pilgrimage to Magdalen country in the South of France as part of my research for The Way of…
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“A fairytale is an imaginary garden with real toads in it.” I don’t know the source of this quotation, but I take it as…
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I am not Irish. That is why I am writing this essay: to explain how someone who is not Irish can be captivated by…
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The Big Question: Did you have to make her a prostitute? Isn’t the traditional depiction of her as a prostitute just perpetuating a patriarchal…